Letter: Taxpayers sucked in to pay for sand replacement on Indian River's beaches

It appears we are again hearing silly, meaningless comments from a uninformed Sebastian resident, ignoring 25 years of logic and proof.

Let us compare the recent intelligent quotes in the Press Journal.

Commissioner Joe Flescher: We are painting the beach (with new sand) every five years . and we don't have the money.

Recent Gov. Bob Graham: Let the structures built too close to the beach fall in and return our former pristine beaches.

Duke University professors precisely explain the real "Rising Sea" in their factual book.

Two Press Journal columnists wrote on erosion "fixes" omitting the words "temporary" and "Band-aid" to describe the "fixes." Taxpayers are sucked in to pay for special interests. It's nauseating to think we have to pay on any more sand that will be washed away!

My 20-year mantra: No man can begin to orchestrate Mother Nature's vast power of wind and quantity of water movement (without a hurricane hit), which will cause man's oceanfront structures to disappear and give back pristine, public beaches.

Now there's another tiny minority of taxpayers holding a "workshop" with ideas from ancient times hoping to gather old and new concrete, busted structures, boulders, rubble, even scrapped cars and millions of dollars to create ugly, monstrous failures to stop erosion. These plans are similar to the "failed" West Palm Beach Prefabricated Erosion Prevention reefs.

Joe Flescher said he didn't "expect" more PEP reefs to relieve the county's need to replace sand, but "may" make it less necessary. "Let's guess" $25 million rather than $100 million.